Welcome to R-Ladies St. Louis

Introduction to Network Analysis

November 8, 2023

Materials for tonight

  • Have R and RStudio installed on your computer

  • Install the following packages

    • statnet

What is R-Ladies?

  • R-Ladies is a world-wide organization with the mission of promoting gender diversity in the R community

  • Started in San Francisco in 2012 and now has 206 chapters and more than 93,000 members globally (check out rladies.org for a Shiny dashboard)

R-Ladies St. Louis

Started in September 2017 by Jenine Harris and Chelsea West

Co-organizers for 2023-24 include:

  • Jenine Harris (Washington University)
  • Mary Painter (University of Colorado, Boulder)
  • Shelly Cooper (Washington University)
  • Crystal Lewis (Freelance Data Management Consultant)
  • Laura Rose (Hinge Health)

2023 Fall Schedule

  • Last month Project Oriented Workflows with Shannon Pileggi
  • Tonight: Introduction to Network Analysis with Leslie Echols
  • November 30th: Introduction to ChatGPT for R Coding with Olivia Weng

Announcements

  • We will be recording this talk

    • Feel free to turn off your cameras if you do not want to be recorded

  • Use the chat to ask questions (to everyone or directly to the host)


Code of Conduct
https://rladies.org/coc/

Want to learn more or get involved?

Visit rladies.org to learn about the mission and global work of R-Ladies

About tonight’s speaker

  • Dr. Echols works at Missouri State University
  • She has expertise in social network analysis and its applications to peer relationships, especially relationships among middle-school age children.

R-Ladies theme for Quarto Presentations. Code available on GitHub.